Hello and welcome to In The Kitchen With Matt, I am
your host, Matt Taylor.
Today, I have another fruit episode for you and I'm going
to be talking all about an amazing fruit
called The Mangosteen.
This is actually one of my new favorite fruits, if not my
favorite fruit of all time.
It is actually incredible.
But the problem is here in the United States, it's very,
very expensive.
I bought these at the local Asian market.
There's two near me.
And at this particular one it was seventeen ninety nine a
pound and they came in two pound bunches.
So it was something like thirty six, thirty seven
dollars and I got 11 of them in there.
So it's like almost four dollars apiece for one
of these fruits.
But I love them.
They are worth it to me.
And if you've never tried em before, if you can
find them, I encourage you to try them.
So today it's going to be all about the mangosteen.
Well where do they come from?
While they're native to places around the Indian Ocean,
they're cultivated all over the world in different
tropical areas, the Philippines, Borneo,
Malaysia and places like in western India.
Over in the west, they're in Colombia, Honduras,
Guatemala and the United States.
They can be grown in Florida, grown in Puerto Rico,
grown in Jamaica.
There's a lot of places where they can be grown.
Also, they're grown in Mexico.
These particular crop came from Mexico,
just an incredible fruit.
One of the names or nicknames for it is the queen of Fruit.
So Durian has a nickname of being the king of fruit.
The mango steam has the nickname of being the
queen of fruit.
However, I like mango steam way more than durian mangosteens
are just absolutely incredible,
super delicious.
Commonly they're eaten fresh in smoothies and desserts and like
fruit salads, things of that nature.
So this is the mangosteen.
Pretty awesome.
Look at what it looks like.
It's nice and round with a stem top here and it's purple in
color and here are some health benefits for it before I show
you how to eat it.
They're low in calories, rich in antioxidants,
a moderate amount of vitamin C, vitamin B, A, B,
one, B to make manganese in magnesium.
There's a decent amount of fiber in these and copper,
they promote a healthy immune system and among other health
benefits are very highly nutritious fruit.
So how do you eat it?
Well, there's a variety of ways to eat it.
I'm just going to show you one of the more common ways
to eat it.
It is fairly firm.
There's a little bit of softness give to it, but it's
fairly firmly it's hard to just dig your finger in there
and appeal it.
And the skin or peel is about a quarter of an inch thick.
So you'll take a sharp knife.
A serrated one is really commonly used.
And we're just going to cut this along the equator here,
not all the way down, maybe go in about an eighth of an inch
or so, maybe a little bit deeper than that.
And just watch your fingers, of course, and you'll just
cut around at.
Cut around the fruit here.
And then once you cut around it, you can just kind of
pinch a little bit and it's going to squeeze that,
it squeezes open and you can just take your fingers in there
and then pull it apart just like that.
Look at that.
Amazing.
And a lot of times they're going to be a fatter
one of these.
And then smaller ones in the fat ones will be a bigger seed
that you don't normally eat.
And then little ones might have a tiny bit of a tiny sheet
in there, but you can eat that.
But this is basically where you eat the inside, you don't eat
the skin, and then you can just grab it with your finger and
kind of just pull up, pull out on it if you want.
Mm
hmm.
Well.
Hmm.
You can also just scoop it out with the spoon, man,
it is incredible.
So good.
How would I describe the taste?
It's often described as like a mix between like a lychee,
a strawberry, a peach and a pineapple, all kind
of mixed together.
Such an incredible flavor.
It's hard to pinpoint one flavor, but that is
definitely a good description of it.
Mix between strawberry peach lychee and a pineapple.
There's a hint of tartness with a nice explosion,
explosion of sweetness.
And it's incredibly juicy.
It is so, so amazing.
That is the mangosteen.
If you've ever had mangosteen, drop a comment down below and
let me know how you like it if you like it or not.
Also, tell me how much it cost where you live here in
the United States.
Most likely you're going to find them at certain times of
the year in like an Asian supermarket,
usually sometime during the summer.
But it's kind of a small window.
When you will find them, you might find them frozen
as well, or like canned or something like that.
But fresh.
There might be a little bit hard to find here and here in
the United States.
That is the mangosteen.
I'm Matt Taylor.
This has been another episode of In the Kitchen with Matt.
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Time for me to dive into this summer.
Oh, yeah.
I'm so excited.
I love these.
Yeah.
Mm hmm.
Wow, so absolutely incredible.
Hmm.